Don't act a fool, be cool. - Blog 11

Chuck Klosterman sees coolness as a desire; we all live our lives striving to be cool. He reflects upon this on page 124 of Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, "The desire to be cool is- ultimately- the desire to be rescued. It's the desire to be pulled from the unwashed masses of society. It's the desire to be advanced beyond the faceless humanoid robots who will die unheralded deaths and never truly matter, mostly because they all lived the same pedestrian life. Without the spoils of exclusionary coolness, we're just cogs in the struggle."


(Original)[--------|-------------------------(Not Original)
           (where you want to be)
    
We were presented this in class & it really got my attention. The little mark is the the ultimate goal for the majority of people. You want to be original, because you still want to fit in with everyone else. But you want to be a little on the not original side to give you a bit of uniqueness from everyone else. 
I think cool is overrated. Everyone strives so hard to be something that they're really not. You have to be who you are, not who everyone wants you to be. Everyone should just be themselves, and not base their opinions on the judgment of others. 
I think a lot of 'what's cool' at the time, comes in waves. Two main ones I can think of would be the fashion trends and social networking sites.